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USGS iscgem16957872

15 Sept 1905, 06:02

off the east coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia

A magnitude 7.8 mw earthquake at 15 km depth.

Depth15 kmPublished hypocentral depth

Tsunami flagNot flaggedUSGS catalog flag, not a current warning

Updated21 July 2024Latest timestamp stored in this record

Published location

Where is off the east coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia?

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55.751000, 163.952000

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Catalog fields and provenance

Event ID

iscgem16957872

Coordinates

55.751, 163.952

Network

iscgem

Significance

946